An homage to her mother's numbers industriousness, The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother's Life in the Detroit Numbers recounts Fannie Davis's life as "part bookie, part banker" and her role as a mother and wife. The memoir paints the picture of a woman making a way out of no way and doing what she has to in order to make a life for her and her children. It's a testament to the resilience of Black women and so suspenseful, it feels like fiction.